Word: dusts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...wasn't exactly a display of super strength. The "grip," generated by four polymer strips designed to bend in response to electrical charges, was barely noticeable. But that force is more than enough for the individual strips to wipe dust from the windshield of a palm-size rover that NASA and the Japanese space agency isas will use to explore an asteroid in 2003. "Clearing dust may not seem like a big deal," says Yoseph Bar-Cohen, a physicist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, who created the muscles. But using old-fashioned gears and motors, he says, would make...
...Dust off that drill, Todd Thibodeaux: it may be time to get back to work...
Tuesday's rally was an important event and its immediate consequences--the dismissal of Douglas and Harvard's agreement to full disclosure--have been encouraging. But once the shouts have faded and the dust has settled in the Yard, the administration should remember that fundamental concerns remain unresolved...
...stars can run, swim and skate faster than any man of a few decades ago, and the gap may eventually close. Since 1964, women's marathon running times have dropped 32%, compared with only 4.2% for men. If the trend continues, female marathoners could be leaving men in the dust sometime in the next century...
...mordant" social commentary referred to in the dust jacket doesn't get very far. The Internet is judged to be addictive. Drugs are seen as the modern equivalent of slavery. Television hypnotizes people. Consumption of Big Macs is morally reprehensible. No one needs to read a novel to figure these things out; one needs only to look around...